23 Araunah said to David, ‘Take it! Let my lord the king do whatever pleases him. Look, I will give the oxen for the burnt offerings, the threshing-sledges for the wood, and the wheat for the grain offering. I will give all this.’

24 But King David replied to Araunah, ‘No, I insist on paying the full price. I will not take for the Lord what is yours, or sacrifice a burnt offering that costs me nothing.’

25 So David paid Araunah six hundred shekels[a] of gold for the site.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Chronicles 21:25 That is, about 6.9 kilograms